Privacy Policy

Hangr ("we", "us" or "our") is a word-guessing game made in Sydney, Australia. This policy explains what information the Hangr mobile apps and the hangrgame.com website collect, why, who can see it, how long we keep it and the choices you have.

Information We Collect

Daily puzzles, packs and progress

When you install Hangr the app generates a random identifier for your installation. It is not linked to your name, email or any store account. We use it to record the daily and pack puzzles you play, your scores, streaks and trophies, so your progress and statistics work and so we can see which puzzles people enjoy.

Shared games (new in version 20.2)

Shared games let a player who has bought the ad-free upgrade write their own puzzles and invite friends by link or QR code. To make this work we store:

• •From creators: the game title, the answers, clues and optional explanations you write, your free-letter setting, and an optional four-digit PIN (stored only as a secure hash). Your device receives a random credential and an anonymous purchase identifier so we can confirm the upgrade with RevenueCat. We do not collect your name.
• •From players: the display name you type when you join (2–24 characters; it is filtered for offensive words), your guesses and free-letter use, how long each move took, and your score and result for each question. Each game gives your device a separate random credential.
• •Transfer files: if you move your created games to another device, the file you export contains only a random one-use token. It holds no puzzle content or personal details and expires after 24 hours.

Who can see shared-game information. Anyone who has the link can see the game title, the number of questions and the rules before joining. Players see the clues as they play and the answer after each round. Once you finish a game, your display name, score and question-by-question results are visible to the game's creator and to every other player who has finished that game. The creator and players can also save and share an image of the leaderboard or their own score. Shared games are private: they are not listed, searchable or indexed, and only people the creator gives the link to can open them. Content in shared games is written by the creator, not by us.

Purchases

The ad-free upgrade and puzzle packs are sold through the Apple App Store or Google Play. Payment is handled entirely by the store; we never see your card details. We use RevenueCat to check which products your installation owns. RevenueCat receives an anonymous identifier and the store's purchase receipt. We also record that a purchase happened, with the product and price, in our own analytics.

Advertising

The free version shows ads through Google AdMob. The Google Mobile Ads SDK may collect your device's advertising identifier, IP address (used to estimate your general region), which ads you see and interact with, and basic device diagnostics. On iOS, Hangr asks for permission through App Tracking Transparency before ads can be personalised; on Android you can reset or delete your advertising ID in system settings. Where regional law requires it, Google's consent form is shown on first launch and an "Ad privacy options" button in Settings lets you change your choice at any time. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services. The ad-free upgrade removes advertising and the ads SDK stops requesting ads.

Analytics

The apps send us usage events tied to your installation identifier: app opens, games started and finished, trophies earned, purchases, ads shown, and whether you turned reminders or the tutorial on or off. We use these to understand how Hangr is played and to fix problems. The website uses Google Analytics with IP anonymisation and honours your browser's Do Not Track setting.

Reminders

Daily reminders are scheduled on your device by the app itself. We do not send push notifications and do not collect a push token.

Information stored on your device

Your progress, settings, drafts of games you are writing, games you have joined and the display name you last used are stored on your device. Credentials for shared games are kept in the device's secure keychain or keystore. The website stores progress in your browser's local storage. Uninstalling the app removes all of this from the device but not the copies we hold on our servers.

How We Use Your Information

• ✓Run the game: save progress, score puzzles, award trophies and show results to the right people
• ✓Operate shared games, including checking a creator's upgrade and limiting abuse (for example rate-limiting PIN guesses)
• ✓Deliver purchases and restore them on your other devices
• ✓Show ads in the free version and measure them
• ✓Understand how Hangr is used, fix bugs and improve puzzles

Who We Share Information With

We do not sell personal information and we do not share it for anyone else's marketing. Information is handled by these providers on our behalf:

• •Google AdMob for advertising, as described above
• •RevenueCat for purchase verification
• •Apple App Store and Google Play for app distribution, payment and their own crash reporting
• •Amazon Web Services (Sydney region) and Netlify (United States), which host our game service and website
• •Other Hangr players, only as described under shared games

We may also disclose information if the law requires it or to protect the safety of players or the integrity of the game.

How Long We Keep Information

• •Daily-puzzle results, trophies and analytics events are kept for as long as Hangr operates, so long-term statistics and streaks keep working.
• •A shared game stops accepting play seven days after it is published, or earlier if the creator closes it. The game, its questions, player display names and results remain stored after that so creators and players can still see results. They are deleted when the creator or a player asks us to, or when we periodically clear out old games.
• •Creator device credentials expire after twelve months of inactivity. Transfer tokens expire after 24 hours.
• •IP addresses are not stored in our database. They are used briefly in memory for rate limiting and may appear in standard web-server logs, which are rotated.

Your Choices and Rights

• →Decline ad tracking on iOS, reset your advertising ID on Android, or use "Ad privacy options" in Settings
• →Choose any display name you like in shared games; it does not have to be your real name, and you can change it after finishing a game
• →Creators can close a shared game at any time, which stops anyone else from playing it
• →Ask us to show you, correct or delete the information we hold about your installation or a shared game. Email us with the game link or your display name so we can find it. We will confirm when it is done.
• →Report a shared game that contains offensive or infringing content by emailing us the link. We can close the game and remove the creator's access.

If you are in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom you also have the right to object to processing and to complain to your data-protection authority. Australian residents can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

Security

All traffic between the apps, the website and our servers uses HTTPS. Credentials and PINs are stored as salted hashes. Shared-game answers are released to a player's device only as they play. No system is perfectly secure, so please keep your transfer files private and choose a PIN for games you do not want forwarded.

Children's Privacy

Hangr is suitable for all ages but is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. The game can be played without an account or any personal details. If you believe a child has entered personal information in a shared game, email us and we will remove it.

International Transfers

Our servers are in Australia. Our providers (Google, RevenueCat, Apple, Netlify) process information in the United States and other countries under their own privacy commitments.

Policy Updates

We may update this policy as Hangr changes. The date at the top shows the latest version, and significant changes are noted in the app's release notes. Continued use of Hangr after a change means you accept the updated policy.

Contact Us

Questions, access or deletion requests, and reports about shared games all go to: